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There are things in this world that are yet to be named

There are things in this world that are yet to be named

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 24, 2020

Runtime

0h 7m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

There are things in this world that are yet to be named

Director

Erin Johnson

Description

"There are things in this world that are yet to be named" centers around Solanum plastisexum - an Australian tomato whose sexual expression is unpredictable and unstable, challenging even the fluid norms of the plant kingdom. Footage of the team of botanists who recently used their Solanum research to explode notions of sexual normativity in any plant or animal is combined with a voiceover of letters sent between science writer Rachel Carson and her lover Dorothy Freeman. "There are things in this world that are yet to be named" is a meditation on erasure, indefinability, and the intersection of queer and environmental histories.